BLURB:
First published in 1813, "Pride and Prejudice," Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners - one of the most popular novels of all time - tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins the novel, that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.
This brilliant novel is a must-read of classic literature and will delight readers of all ages.

BLURB:
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

BLURB:The New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling
collection of short stories chronicling the adventures of Simon Lewis
as he trains to become a Shadowhunter is now available in print for the
first time with ten brand-new comic illustrations!

Simon Lewis has been a human and a vampire, and now he is becoming a Shadowhunter. The events of City of Heavenly Fire left
him stripped of his memories, and Simon isn’t sure who he is anymore.
So when the Shadowhunter Academy reopens, Simon throws himself into this
new world of demon-hunting, determined to find himself again. Whomever
this new Simon might be.

But the Academy is a
Shadowhunter institution, which means it has some problems. Like the
fact that non-Shadowhunter students have to live in the basement. At
least Simon’s trained in weaponry—even if it’s only from hours of
playing D&D.

Join Simon on his journey to become a
Shadowhunter, and learn about the Academy’s illustrious history along
the way, through guest lecturers such as Jace Herondale, Tessa Gray, and
Magnus Bane. Written by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen
Johnson, and Robin Wasserman, these moving and hilarious short stories
are perfect for the fan who just can’t get enough of the Shadowhunters.

Hope Fairmont longs for a normal teenage life, but with a gift like hers, normal equals healing illnesses and injuries instantly. Keeping a secret like that isn’t easy, but a small town is the perfect place for her to heal those who can’t heal themselves, and an even better place for her father, James Fairmont, to hide his daughter from the rest of the world.

Life takes an unexpected turn when two handsome strangers move into town and begin unearthing other secrets concerning Hope's future and past, revealing to Hope that her gift for healing may be the fulfillment of an ancient, Japanese prophecy gone wrong.

Staying away from these mysterious newcomers would be the smart thing to do, but Victor's gentle, easy manner, and Tie's mixed signals and strange mood swings draw her hopelessly closer to revealing the secret she and her father have been so desperate to hide.

Hope's life is complicated further with visions of a previous life and the arrival of a supernatural demon sent to assassinate her before she learns what she is truly capable of.

With the support of her father, the fiery loyalty of her best friend Angie, and the child-like love of Kirby, a ten-year-old patient, Hope must fight against the forces of a relentless demon god while unwinding the tangled pieces of her past, proving to herself and those she loves that destiny isn’t determined by some cosmic reading of the stars, but by the individual choices one makes.

BLURB:
Seventeen-year-old
Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the
prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to
fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In
fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws
her Coke in his face.

But things aren’t so great at home right
now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing
Wesley. Worse, she likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself
into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with him.
Until it
all goes horribly awry. It turns out Wesley isn’t such a bad listener,
and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with
absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated
more than anyone

22 May, 2016

21 May, 2016

Today is a big day because our blog is welcoming a new contributor - Martyna!

We are so excited and happy to expand out little team and also to expand our reviewing boarders because Martyna is a fan of classics as well as historical fiction books! So prepare my lovelies because boy oh boy this is going to be awesome!

P.S. Martyna's first review is coming up on 23rd of May, are you excited? I know we cannot wait!

Hi all I’m Martyna.

Currently I am living under the Lithuanian sky!

Unlike HannahCassie or Laura I’m already done with my studies (I have bachelor in English philology and a master’s degree in communication and marketing), so I already entered the adult world (not that fun).

I really love theater.

I belong to a theater company called MINIMUM for almost 5 years now.

I also love cinema and of course reading!

I’m also pretending to be a writer and have been fiddling with few projects myself for some time. Hope I’ll finish it eventually.

BLURB:The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.

EVERY DAY THE SAMERachel
takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she
rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes,
and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple
breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows
them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is
perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.

UNTIL TODAYAnd
then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train
moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it
to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable
as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation
but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

BLURB:In the year 2044,
reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels
alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS.
Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this
world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's
obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive
power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon
the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to
take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to
survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been
so desperate to escape.

SYNOPSIS: The much anticipated sequel to the breathtaking The Wrath and the Dawn, lauded by Publishers Weekly as "a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance."

I am surrounded on all sides by a desert. A guest, in a prison of sand and sun. My family is here. And I do not know whom I can trust.

In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid's empire. Shahrzad is almost a prisoner caught between loyalties to people she loves. But she refuses to be a pawn and devises a plan.

While her father, Jahandar, continues to play with magical forces he doesn't yet understand, Shahrzad tries to uncover powers that may lie dormant within her. With the help of a tattered old carpet and a tempestuous but sage young man, Shahrzad will attempt to break the curse and reunite with her one true love.

BLURB:Thrust into a world of men, can a timid girl find bravery as the first female Death?

Thirteen-year-old
Suzie Sarnio always believed the Grim Reaper was a fairy tale image of a
skeleton with a scythe. Now, forced to enter the College of Deaths, she
finds herself training to bring souls from the Living World to the
Hereafter. The task is demanding enough, but as the only female in the
all-male College, she quickly becomes a target. Attacked by both
classmates and strangers, Suzie is alone in a world where even her
teachers want her to fail.

Scythes hungry for souls, Deaths who subjugate a race of mysterious magicians, and echoes of an ancient war with Dragons.

As
her year progresses, Suzie suspects her presence isn't an accident. She
uncovers a plot to overthrow the World of Deaths. Now she must also
discover the reason she's been brought there: the first female Death in a
million years.

Ana is
new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been
reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from
previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one
knows why.

No soul

Even Ana’s own mother thinks she’s a
nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from
society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she’ll be
reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are
afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the
city, is Ana to blame?

Heart

Sam believes Ana’s new soul
is good and worthwhile. When he stands up for her, their relationship
blooms. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana’s
enemies—human and creature alike—let them be together? Ana needs to
uncover the mistake that gave her someone else’s life, but will her
quest threaten the peace of Heart and destroy the promise of
reincarnation for all?

Jodi Meadows expertly weaves soul-deep romance, fantasy, and danger into an extraordinary tale of new life.

BLURB:
From #1 New York
Times bestselling author Alyson Noël comes the first book in the
Beautiful Idols series. With mystery, suspense, and an insiders-only
look at Los Angeles that echoes Gossip Girl’s racy and real New York,
fans of Pretty Little Liars and readers who crave pulse-pounding romance
will love Unrivalled.
EVERYONE wants to be someone.
Layla Harrison wants to be a reporter.
Aster Amirpour wants to be an actress.
Tommy Phillips wants to be a guitar hero.
But Madison Brooks took destiny and made it her own a long time ago.
She’s
Hollywood’s hottest starlet, and the things she did to become the name
on everyone’s lips are merely a stain on the pavement, ground beneath
her Louboutin heel.
That is, until Layla, Aster, and Tommy find
themselves with a VIP invite to the world of Los Angeles’s nightlife and
are lured into a competition. The prize, or rather the target? Madison
Brooks.
Just as their hopes begin to gleam like stars through the
California smog, Madison Brooks goes missing. . . . And all of their
hopes are blacked out in the haze of their lies.

BLURB: #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hopeless joins forces with the
New York Times bestselling author of Mud Vein. Together, they have
created a gripping, romantic tale unlike any other. "How odd to be made
of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled with a soul you've never met."
Charlize Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could
walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this
morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first
fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished. "I
don't care what our real first kiss was," he says. "That's the one I
want to remember." Charlize and Silas must work together to uncover the
truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about
the couple they used to be...the more they question why they were ever
together to begin with. "I want to remember what it feels like to love
someone like that. And not just anyone. I want to know what it feels
like to love Charlie."

BLURB:In Midnight Crossroad, Charlaine Harris “capture[d] the same magic as the world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, and [took] it to another level" (Houston Press). Now the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the
one-traffic-light town you see only when you’re on the way to someplace
else....
There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in
Midnight, Texas, where the residents like to keep to themselves. Even in
a town full of secretive people, Olivia Charity is an enigma. She lives
with the vampire Lemuel, but no one knows what she does; they only know
that she’s beautiful and dangerous.
Psychic Manfred Bernardo
finds out just how dangerous when he goes on a working weekend to Dallas
and sees Olivia there with a couple who are both found dead the next
day. To make matters worse, one of Manfred’s regular — and very wealthy —
clients dies during a reading.
Manfred returns from Dallas
embroiled in scandal and hounded by the press. He turns to Olivia for
help; somehow he knows that the mysterious Olivia can get things back to
normal. As normal as things get in Midnight...

SYNOPSIS: It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Prince Rhy was wounded, and since the nefarious Dane twins of White London fell, and four months since the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift – back into Black London.

Now, restless after having given up his smuggling habit, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks as she always meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games – an extravagant international competition of magic meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries – a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port.

And while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night will reappear in the morning. But the balance of magic is ever perilous, and for one city to flourish, another London must fall.

BLURB:Alyson Noël's
bestselling Immortals series has been hailed as "addictive,"
"beautiful," "haunting," and "mesmerizing." In Blue Moon, Ever has a
chance to bring her family back from the dead - but only if she's
willing to sacrifice the guy she loves more than life itself.

Just
as Ever is learning everything she can about her new abilities as an
immortal, initiated into the dark, seductive world by her beloved Damen,
something terrible is happening to him. As Ever's powers are
increasing, Damen's begin to fade after he is stricken by a mysterious
illness that threatens his memory, his identity, his life.

Desperate
to save him, Ever travels to the mystical dimension of Summerland,
where she uncovers not only the secrets of Damen's past - the brutal,
tortured history he hoped to keep hidden - but also an ancient text
revealing the workings of time. With the approaching blue moon heralding
her only window for travel, Ever is forced to decide between turning
back the clock and saving her family from the accident that claimed them
- or staying in the present and saving Damen, who grows weaker each
day....

SYNOPSIS:Sydney Sage is an
Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to
bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. Alchemists protect vampire
secrets - and human lives.

Sydney would love to go to college,
but instead, she's been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in
Palm Springs, California - tasked with protecting Moroi princess Jill
Dragomir from assassins who want to throw the Moroi court into civil
war. Formorly in disgrace, Sydney is now praised for her loyalty and
obedience, and held up as the model of an exemplary Alchemist.

But the closer she grows to Jill, Eddie, and especially Adrian, the more
she finds herself questioning her age-old Alchemist beliefs, her idea
of family, and her sense of what it means to truly belong. Her world
becomes even more complicated when magical experiments show Sydney may
hold the key to prevent becoming Strigoi - the fiercest vampires, the
ones who don't die. But it's her fear of being just that - special,
magical, powerful - that scares her more than anything. Equally daunting
is her new romance with Braydon, a cute, brainy guy who seems to be her
match in every way. Yet, as perfect as he seems, Sydney finds herself
being drawn to someone else - someone forbidden to her.

When a
shocking secret threatens to tear the vampire world apart, Sydney's
loyalties are suddenly tested more than ever before. She wonders how
she's supposed to strike a balance between the principles and dogmas
she's been taught, and what her instincts are now telling her.

Should she trust the Alchemists - or her heart?

02 May, 2016

My apologies for being super absent on the blog during most of March/April :( I was very busy with studies and now I have a tiny "break" (meaning no exams or projects but I still have classes). I am planning on reading these 5 books for May: The Rose and the Dagger, A Gathering of Shadows, The Winner's Curse, The Secret Place, and The Healer!

I actually gave myself a heads-up because I finished AGOS in April lol and you'll get the review soon. I'M ALSO SUPER EXCITED ABOUT TRATD! I just got the book in the mail so I'll be starting it soon! Oh and I've heard wonders about The Winner's trilogy :D

Also, I am on vacation (visiting Ireland!) from May 1st to May 7th so everything will be queued. Have a great month readers!

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